Essential Evidence Outlines: Practitioner and Student Handbook 4Th Edition
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Essential Evidence Outlines is designed for use by members of the judiciary, practitioners, law professors and law students as a review of the essential elements of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
Judge Ryan has compiled these materials over the last twenty-four years of teaching law school and continuing legal and judicial education Evidence programs in the United States and internationally. Essential Evidence Outlines is unique in that it provides the Federal Rules of Evidence including current amendments through December 2011, signi?cant Evidence cases through October 2011, a topical index, and ready to use outlines for an entire Evidence or Advanced Evidence course. The text has been used in National Judicial College classes and is designed to be employed by members of the judiciary and practitioners to assist them as a guide in quickly ?nding answers to evidentiary issues that arise during trial. Law school professors at a number of law schools have used the text as a required text and to assist them in the preparation of their lectures and course materials. Law students have described previous editions as an invaluable re-source and have used the outlines of the Federal Rules of Evidence as a required or supplemental text in Evidence class or in preparation for the bar examination as a review of the essential elements of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Consequently, it is essential reading for members of the judiciary, academics, practitioners, and students who wish to have a better grasp of the substantive law of Evidence.
Hon. Daniel P. Ryan Phd
Hon. Daniel P. Ryan, PhD, J.D. has served as a District and Circuit Judge in Michigan since 1994, an Adjunct or Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law, University of Detroit-Mercy Law School, and Cooley Law School beginning in 1989, and has been a faculty member at the National Judicial College since 1996. He has taught numerous Evidence and continuing judicial and legal education programs in the United States and internationally.
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Essential Evidence Outlines - Hon. Daniel P. Ryan Phd
Contents
Preface
Federal Rules of Evidence
2011 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence
Lecture 1:
Evidentiary Framework
Eleven Hour Clock
Lecture 2:
Preliminary Questions of Fact and Conditional Relevancy
Lecture 3:
Logical and Legal Relevancy; Unfair Prejudice
Lecture 4:
Character
Ryan’s Roadmap to Character Evidence
Lecture 5:
Habit, Custom and Similar Happenings
Lecture 6:
Relevancy Rules in Sex Offense Cases
Lecture 7:
Privilege, Presumptions and Judicial Notice
Lecture 8:
Competency, Direct, Cross-Examination, Impeachment, and Rehabilitation
Lecture 9:
Real and Demonstrative Evidence and Advanced Evidentiary Issues Involving Technology and Trial Practice
Lecture 10:
Hearsay
Lecture 11:
Issues Involving Child Witnesses, Statements by Children, and the Confrontation Clause
Ryan’s Roadmap to Child Witnesses
Lecture 12:
The Opinion Rule, Experts and Emerging Areas of Testimonial Expertise
Lecture 13:
Recent and Proposed Amendments To The Federal Rules of Evidence
Simplified Rules of Evidence
Topical Index/Evidentiary Objections
Preface
This fourth edition contains the most recent substantive and stylistic amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence through December 1, 2011. It also contains updated outlines that include recent evidentiary cases and expanded content.
The reader will note that in this fourth edition following the Federal Rules of Evidence, which are currently in effect, are the proposed 2011 amendments to Rules 101 through 1103 that will go into effect on December 1, 2011 unless Congress acts to the contrary. The 2011 amendments are stylistic changes intended to make the Rules of Evidence clearer and easier to understand without changing the substantive meaning of the rules. Until official
approval, both versions of the Federal Rules are included for benefit of practitioners who practice in both federal and state courts which may not embrace the changes quite as quickly.
There is no shortage of casebooks, treatises, and manuals on the Federal Rules of Evidence. However, it seemed to me that a useful addition to the literature would be a presentation of the Federal Rules of Evidence, with brief accompanying explanatory text, in outline format, for fast and easy reference by law students, Evidence teachers, trial lawyers, and trial judges. This handbook provides the Federal Rules of Evidence with amendments through December 1, 2011 and divides the Federal Rules of Evidence into 13 separate outlines, roughly corresponding to the manner in which the Rules of Evidence are studied in a fourteen-week law school Evidence or Advanced Evidence course. It also contains useful diagrams and charts to assist in quickly finding an answer to an evidentiary question which may arise during trial. It is designed for use by members of the judiciary, practitioners, law professors and law students as a review of the essential elements of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
These outlines have been compiled over twenty-four years of teaching Evidence, Advanced Evidence, Trial Advocacy, and Evidence Problems for numerous continuing legal and judicial education programs for the National Judicial College, the Michigan Judicial Institute, State Bar of Michigan Criminal Law and Young Lawyers Sections, 3rd Judicial Circuit Criminal Advocacy Programs, Connecticut Judicial Branch, New Mexico Judicial Education Center, West Virginia Judicial Association Circuit Judges Educational Conference, Texas Justice Courts Training Center, South Dakota Judicial Conference, Kansas Municipal Judges Conference, OSHA, NLRB, the Nevada State Bar, Nevada District Judges Association, the Pacific Islands Legal Institute, the Pacific Judicial Conference, the Marshall Islands Evidence and Trial Practice Workshop and as a Visiting Associate and/or Adjunct Professor of Law at Ave Maria, University of Detroit- Mercy, and Cooley Law Schools.
I would like to express my gratitude to current and former students over the years who have made teaching Evidence a wonderful experience and for their input, revisions and for their suggestion to compile these rules and my outlines in one readily accessible resource for their future use. I would like to thank Matt Kuschel and Stephanie Myers for their assistance with this 4th edition. I would like to also thank my father, U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan and Professor J. Eric Smithburn of the University of Notre Dame Law School for their inspiration and insight regarding the Federal Rules of Evidence.
This text is unique in that it provides both the Federal Rules of Evidence and ready to use
materials for an entire fourteen-week law school Evidence or Advanced Evidence course and is designed for use by members of the judiciary and practitioners to assist them as a guide in finding answers to evidentiary issues that arise during trial; for law school professors to assist them in the preparation of their lectures and course materials; and for law students as a summary of Federal Rules of Evidence and in preparation for the bar examination as a review of the essential elements of the Federal Rules of Evidence.
This text was initially published for independent study credits supervised by Prof. James Richardson and in partial fulfillment of Doctor of Philosophy degree in Judicial Studies from the University of Nevada, Reno. I would like to dedicate this text to my wife, Mary Catherine, who tolerates and enables all the teaching, travel, and writing; our eight children, Katie, Daniel, Michael, Justin, Conor, Nicholas, Jacob, and Anna; and to our first grandchild, Grace Marie Ryan McIlhon.
Federal Rules of Evidence
Effective July 1, 1975
Including All Amendments through December 1, 2011
ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Rule
101. Scope
102. Purpose and Construction
103. Rulings on Evidence
104. Preliminary Questions
105. Limited Admissibility
106. Remainder of or Related Writings or Recorded Statements
ARTICLE II. JUDICIAL NOTICE
201. Judicial Notice of Adjudicative Facts
ARTICLE III. PRESUMPTION IN CIVIL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
301. Presumptions in General in Civil Actions and Proceedings
302. Applicability of State Law in Civil Actions and Proceedings
ARTICLE IV. RELEVANCY AND ITS LIMITS
401. Definition of Relevant Evidence
402. Relevant Evidence Generally Admissible; Irrelevant Evidence Inadmissible
403. Exclusion of Relevant Evidence on Grounds of Prejudice, Confusion, or Waste of Time
404. Character Evidence Not Admissible to Prove Conduct; Exceptions; Other Crimes
405. Methods of Proving Character
406. Habit; Routine Practice
407. Subsequent Remedial Measures
408. Compromise and Offers to Compromise
409. Payment of Medical and Similar Expenses
410. Inadmissibility of Pleas, Plea Discussions, and Related Statements
411. Liability Insurance
412. Sex Offense Cases; Relevance of Alleged Victim’s Past Sexual Behavior or Alleged Sexual Predisposition
413. Evidence of Similar Crimes in Sexual Assault Cases
414. Evidence of Similar Crimes in Child Molestation Cases
415. Evidence of Similar Acts in Civil Cases Concerning Sexual Assault or Child Molestation
ARTICLE V. PRIVILEGES
501. General Rule
502. Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product; Limitations on Waiver
ARTICLE VI. WITNESSES
601. General Rule of Competency
602. Lack of Personal Knowledge
603. Oath or Affirmation
604. Interpreters
605. Competency of Judge as Witness
606. Competency of Juror as Witness
607. Who May Impeach
608. Evidence of Character and Conduct of Witness
609. Impeachment by Evidence of Conviction of Crime
610. Religious Beliefs or Opinions
611. Mode and Order of Interrogation and Presentation
612. Writing Used to Refresh Memory
613. Prior Statements of Witness
614. Calling and Interrogation of Witnesses by Court
615. Exclusion of Witnesses
ARTICLE VII. OPINIONS AND EXPERT TESTIMONY
701. Opinion Testimony by Lay Witnesses
702. Testimony by Experts
703. Bases of Opinion Testimony by Experts
704. Opinion on Ultimate Issue
705. Disclosure of Facts or Data Underlying Expert Opinion
706. Court Appointed Experts
ARTICLE VIII. HEARSAY
801. Definitions
802. Hearsay Rule
803. Hearsay Exceptions; Availability of Declarant Immaterial
804. Hearsay Exceptions; Declarant Unavailable
805. Hearsay Within Hearsay
806. Attacking and Supporting Credibility of Declarant
807. Residual Exception
ARTICLE IX. AUTHENTICATION AND IDENTIFICATION
901. Requirement of Authentication or Identification
902. Self-Authentication
903. Subscribing Witness’ Testimony Unnecessary
ARTICLE X. CONTENTS OF WRITINGS, RECORDINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS
1001. Definitions
1002. Requirement of Original
1003. Admissibility of Duplicates
1004. Admissibility of Other Evidence of Contents
1005. Public Records
1006. Summaries
1007. Testimony or Written Admission of Party
1008. Functions of Court and Jury
ARTICLE XI. MISCELLANEOUS RULES
1101. Applicability of Rules
1102. Amendments
1103. Title
ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Rule 101. Scope
These rules govern proceedings in the courts of the United States and before the United States bankruptcy judges and the United States magistrate judges, to the extent and with the exceptions stated in rule 1101.
[Amended March 2, 1987, effective October 1, 1987; April 25, 1988, effective November 1, 1988; April 22, 1993, effective December 1, 1993.]
Rule 102. Purpose and Construction
These rules shall be construed to secure fairness in administration, elimination of unjustifiable expense and delay, and promotion of growth and development of the law of evidence to the end that the truth may be ascertained and proceedings justly determined.
Rule 103. Rulings on Evidence
(a) Effect of Erroneous Ruling. Error may not be predicated upon a ruling which admits or excludes evidence unless a substantial right of the party is affected, and
(1) Objection. In case the ruling is one admitting evidence, a timely objection or motion to strike appears of record, stating the specific ground of objection, if the specific ground was not apparent from the context; or
(2) Offer of Proof. In case the ruling is one excluding evidence, the substance of the evidence was made known to the court by offer or was apparent from the context within which questions were asked.
Once the court makes a definitive ruling on the record admitting or excluding evidence, either at or before trial, a party need not renew an objection or offer of proof to preserve a claim of error for appeal.
(b) Record of Offer and Ruling. The court may add any other or further statement which shows the character of the evidence, the form in which it was offered, the objection made, and the ruling thereon. It may direct the making of an offer in question and answer form.
(c) Hearing of Jury. In jury cases, proceedings shall be conducted, to the extent practicable, so as to prevent inadmissible evidence from being suggested to the jury by any means, such as making statements or offers of proof or asking questions in the hearing of the jury.
(d) Plain Error. Nothing in this rule precludes taking notice of plain errors affecting substantial rights although they were not brought to the attention of the court.
[Amended April 17, 2000, effective December 1, 2000]
Rule 104. Preliminary Questions
(a) Questions of Admissibility Generally. Preliminary questions concerning the qualification of a person to be a witness, the existence of a privilege, or the admissibility of evidence shall be determined by the court, subject to the provisions of subdivision (b). In making its determination it is not bound by the rules of evidence except those with respect to privileges.
(b) Relevancy Conditioned on Fact. When the relevancy of evidence depends upon the fulfillment of a condition of fact, the court shall admit it upon, or subject to, the introduction of evidence sufficient to support a finding of the fulfillment of the condition.
(c) Hearing of Jury. Hearings on the admissibility of confessions shall in all cases be conducted out of the hearing of the jury. Hearings on other preliminary matters shall be so conducted when the interests of justice require, or when an accused is a witness and so requests.
(d) Testimony by Accused. The accused does not, by testifying upon a preliminary matter, become subject to cross-examination as to other issues in the case.
(e) Weight and Credibility. This rule does not limit the right of a party to introduce before the jury evidence relevant to weight or credibility.
[Amended March 2, 1987, effective October 1, 1987]
Rule 105. Limited Admissibility
When evidence which is admissible as to one party or for one purpose but not admissible as to another party or for another purpose is admitted, the court, upon request, shall restrict the evidence to its proper scope and instruct the jury accordingly.
Rule 106. Remainder of or Related Writings or Recorded Statements
When a writing or recorded statement or part thereof is introduced by a party, an adverse party may require the introduction at that time of any other part or any other writing or recorded statement which ought in fairness to be considered contemporaneously with it.
[Amended March 2, 1987, effective October 1, 1987]
ARTICLE II. JUDICIAL NOTICE
Rule 201. Judicial Notice of Adjudicative Facts
(a) Scope of Rule. This rule governs only judicial notice of adjudicative facts.
(b) Kinds of Facts. A judicially noticed fact must be one not subject to reasonable dispute in that it is either (1) generally known within the territorial jurisdiction of the trial court or (2) capable of accurate and ready determination by resort to sources whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned.
(c) When Discretionary. A court may take judicial notice, whether requested or not.
(d) When Mandatory. A court shall take judicial notice if requested by a party and supplied with the necessary information.
(e) Opportunity to Be Heard. A party is entitled upon timely request to an opportunity to be heard as to the propriety of taking judicial notice and the tenor of the matter noticed. In the absence of prior notification, the request may be made after judicial notice has been taken.
(f) Time of Taking Notice. Judicial notice may be taken at any stage of the proceeding.
(g) Instructing Jury. In a civil action or proceeding, the court shall instruct the jury to accept as conclusive any fact judicially noticed. In a criminal case, the court shall instruct the jury that it may, but is not required to, accept as conclusive any fact judicially noticed.
ARTICLE III. PRESUMPTIONS IN CIVIL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Rule 301. Presumptions in General in Civil Actions and Proceedings
In all civil actions and proceedings not otherwise provided for by Act of Congress or by these rules, a presumption imposes on the party against whom it is directed the burden of going forward with evidence to rebut or meet the presumption, but does not shift to such party the burden of proof in the sense of the risk of nonpersuasion, which remains throughout the trial upon the party on whom it was originally cast.
Rule 302. Applicability of State Law in Civil Actions and Proceedings
In civil actions and proceedings, the effect of a presumption respecting a fact which is an element of a claim or defense as to which State law supplies the rule of decision is determined in accordance with State law.
ARTICLE IV. RELEVANCY AND ITS LIMITS
Rule 401. Definition of Relevant Evidence
Relevant evidence
means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.
Rule 402. Relevant Evidence Generally Admissible; Irrelevant Evidence Inadmissible
All relevant evidence is admissible, except as otherwise provided by the Constitution of the United States, by Act of Congress, by these rules, or by other rules prescribed by the Supreme Court pursuant to statutory authority. Evidence which is not relevant is not admissible.
Rule 403. Exclusion of Relevant Evidence on Grounds of Prejudice, Confusion, or Waste of Time
Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.
Rule 404. Character Evidence Not Admissible to Prove Conduct; Exceptions; Other Crimes
(a) Character Evidence Generally. Evidence of a person’s character or a trait of character is not admissible for the purpose of proving action in conformity therewith on a particular occasion, except:
(1) Character of Accused. In a criminal case, evidence of a pertinent trait of character offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the same, or if evidence of a trait of character of the alleged victim of a crime is offered by an accused and admitted under Rule 404(a) (2), evidence of the same trait of character of the accused offered by the prosecution;
(2) Character of Alleged Victim. In a criminal case, and subject to the limitations imposed by Rule 412, evidence of a pertinent trait of character of the alleged victim of the crime offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the same, or evidence of a character trait of peacefulness of the alleged victim offered by the prosecution in a homicide case to rebut evidence that the alleged victim was the first aggressor;
(3) Character of Witness. Evidence of the character of a witness, as provided in rules 607, 608, and 609.
(b) Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident, provided that upon request by the accused, the prosecution in a criminal case shall provide reasonable notice in advance of trial, or during trial if the court excuses pretrial notice on good cause shown, of the general nature of any such evidence it intends to introduce at trial.
[Amended March 2, 1987, effective October 1, 1987; April 30, 1991, effective December 1, 1991; April 17, 2000, effective December 1, 2000; April 12, 2006, effective December 1, 2006.]
Rule 405. Methods of Proving Character
(a) Reputation or Opinion. In all cases in which evidence of character or a trait of character of a person is admissible, proof may be made by testimony as to reputation or by testimony in the form of an opinion. On cross-examination, inquiry is allowable into relevant specific instances of conduct.
(b) Specific Instances of Conduct. In cases in which character or a trait of character of a person is an essential element of a charge, claim, or defense, proof may also be made of specific instances of that person’s conduct.
[Amended March 2, 1987, effective October 1, 1987]
Rule 406. Habit; Routine Practice
Evidence of the habit of a person or of the routine practice of an organization, whether corroborated or not and regardless of the presence of eyewitnesses, is relevant to prove that the conduct of the person or organization on a particular occasion was in conformity with the habit or routine practice.
Rule 407. Subsequent Remedial Measures
When, an injury or harm allegedly caused by an event, measures are taken that, if taken previously, would have made the injury or harm less likely to occur, evidence of the subsequent measures is not admissible to prove negligence, culpable conduct, a defect in a product, a defect in a product’s design, or a need for a warning or instruction. This rule does not require the exclusion of evidence of subsequent measures when offered for another purpose, such as proving ownership, control, or feasibility of precautionary measures, if controverted, or impeachment.
[Amended April 11, 1997, effective December 1, 1997]
Rule 408. Compromise and Offers to Compromise
(a) Prohibited uses.- Evidence of the following is not admissible on behalf